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Re: Murphy's Law 8: College? What About It?

Originally Posted by Asta Kask

Driders (in standard D&D) are Drow men who failed a test their goddess puts everyone who wants to advance from 9th level (I think) to 10th level. They live on the outskirts of Drow cities and eat Drow that come too close.

That was changed in later editions because it makes little sense to look MORE like your god/goddess as a punishment

Re: Murphy's Law 8: College? What About It?

Originally Posted by Asta Kask

You may find that posting pictures where putting on women's clothing is seen as gayish here is not the wisest career-move.

There was no such intent. Just excuse regardless of wrongness to have one dressed as a female classic ballet dancer, as I think that kind of skirt in one of them looks more ridiculous than both dressed as male classic ballet dancers. And the only thing I could (or that ocurred to me at the moment) draw to make clear they were dressed as classic ballet dancers was a skirt, as the change of drawing to the legs to the one at the right would likely not be seen right.

(Now, I'm not American so I'm unaware of possible implications of the affirmation of "gays wear women clothes". Here that's not something one considers true, but has no other connotation. Maybe reminding one of Miguel Bosé and the skirts he wore as affirmation of his homosexuality, and encouragement of its acceptability, at the end of the eighties and start of the nineties)

Re: Murphy's Law 8: College? What About It?

Originally Posted by t209

Well, Drows in drowtales are kinda jerk though in my opinion.

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Same goes to the Surface elves who murdered "light" elves and practice caste system.

Murdering the outsider elves was pretty bad yeah, though i believe there was something in there about them not trusting outsiders and not wanting to endanger themselves by allowing them in. From their own point of view, those outsiders could be carrying diseases, they could leave the city and inform enemies of their location, or even breed with the local population and dilute the pure *Elf type here* Elf blood. I'm not sure, i take long bouts of not reading that comic to prevent me from catching up to the latest page.

As for the other thing, Their is nothing wrong with caste systems, if it works it works. again this boils down to "not human" society, just because they don't promote democracy and equality like we do does not make it wrong, just different.

Drows being jerk, well that's your opinion, and i can honestly understand where your coming from with that, they do have a tendency to shed a little more blood then necessary and betray one another at the most inopportune moments. Though again, it's their way and their culture, and from an outsider's point of view, it seems strange and likely wrong.

But anyways i think this is kind of getting offtopic. So how about them thar team gale? Sure are a windy group of acquaintances who work towards a mutual goal now ain't they? ...

Re: Murphy's Law 8: College? What About It?

Not starting my classes for another two weeks. Woot. Though, I'm actually going back to school in a few days to begin marching band. This is debatably both worse and better than starting classes. On one hand, I get to spend a week and a half with some of my best friends before school starts. On the other hand, marching is very physically demanding. An average member of the marching band burns about as many calories as a football player over the course of a game.

Re: Murphy's Law 8: College? What About It?

Originally Posted by Alagaesian

Not starting my classes for another two weeks. Woot. Though, I'm actually going back to school in a few days to begin marching band. This is debatably both worse and better than starting classes. On one hand, I get to spend a week and a half with some of my best friends before school starts. On the other hand, marching is very physically demanding. An average member of the marching band burns about as many calories as a football player over the course of a game.

I sortta kinda know that feel. Back in highschool I was part of the marching band though not in the way you expect. See I can't play any instrument to save my life and I certainly can't spin flag. No I was there as the tech guy. I got microphones onto the field and made sure everything went right during the show. (Things like extra sound effects, lower the pi mic during the ballad, turn off the solo mic when not in use, it needs to be higher for a flute solo than a trumpet one...) And the at the end I scamble with very little diginity to get it all off the field to avoid time penalties while the band marches proudly off. So while I didn't work as hard as they did per se, I did go to every practice, every show and got to watch them do their thing. Had to know the whole show by sound because if it was raining, me and my equipment were covered in an opaque tarp so that I couldn't see the band. Which is sad because they look so proud and powerful when they give it their all in the rain!

Re: Murphy's Law 8: College? What About It?

Yeah, Orgo was actually pretty interesting for me too. If I wasn't taking computer programming classes at the same time, it probably would have been my favorite class. One of the things I did to make my notes more interesting was to assign certain chemicals specific personalities. For instance, sodium borohydride was a regular soldier - just a normal guy who did as he was told, reducing your standard array of things, just being a good reducing agent. Grignards, in comparison, were soldiers who had gone a little bit off the deep end, reducing things like alchols that normal reducing agents wouldn't dare touch. DiBAL was a robotic super-soldier who went around reducing everything without hesitation or discrimination.